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ἴσθμιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἴσθμιον ἴσθμιου

Structure: ἰσθμι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: i)sqmo/s

Sense

  1. anything on the neck, a necklace
  2. the Isthmian games

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εἰ καιρὸσ ἦν, ὦ Ἀνάχαρσι, Ὀλυμπίων ἢ Ἰσθμίων ἢ Παναθηναίων, αὐτὸ ἄν σε τὸ γιγνόμενον ἐδίδαξεν ὡσ οὐ μάτην ἐσπουδάκαμεν ἐπὶ τούτοισ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 12:1)
  • τῶν Ἰσθμίων, ἀναβὰσ τ’ ἐπὶ τὸν τοῦ Ποσειδῶνοσ νεὼν κατεβόα τῶν Βακχιαδῶν καὶ τὴν τοῦ πατρὸσ Ἅβρωνοσ εὐεργεσίαν ὑπεμίμνησκε, τούσ τε θεοὺσ ἐπικαλεσάμενοσ ῥίπτει ἑαυτὸν κατὰ τῶν πετρῶν. (Plutarch, Amatoriae narrationes, chapter 2 12:1)
  • Ἀθήναισ, Ὀλύμπι’ ἐν Πίσῃ Νέμε’ ἐν Ἄργει πανηγυρίζειν, Πυθίων ἀγομένων εἰσ Δελφοὺσ παρελθεῖν, Ἰσθμίων εἰσ Κόρινθον, ἄνπερ ᾖ φιλοθέωροσ· (Plutarch, De exilio, section 12 6:1)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ζητήσεωσ γενομένησ περὶ σαμβύκησ ἔφη ὁ Μασούριοσ ὀξύφθογγον εἶναι μουσικὸν ὄργανον τὴν σαμβύκην διειλέχθαι τε περὶ αὐτοῦ Εὐφορίωνα τὸν ἐποποιὸν ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἰσθμίων, χρῆσθαι φήσασ αὐτῷ Πάρθουσ καὶ Τρωγλοδύτασ τετραχόρδῳ ὄντι ἱστορεῖν δὲ τοῦτο Πυθαγόραν ἐν τῷ περὶ τῆσ Ἐρυθρᾶσ Θαλάσσησ, καλεῖται δέ τι καὶ τῶν πολιορκητικῶν ὀργάνων σαμβύκη, οὗ τό τε σχῆμα καὶ τὴν κατασκευὴν ἀποδείκνυσι Βίτων ἐν τῷ πρὸσ Ἄτταλον περὶ Ὀργάνων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 34 1:3)
  • Εὐφορίων δὲ ἐν τῷ περὶ Ἰσθμίων παλαιὸν μέν φησι τὸ ὄργανον εἶναι τὴν μάγαδιν, μετασκευασθῆναι δ’ ὀψέ ποτε καὶ σαμβύκην μετονομασθῆναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 36 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. anything on the neck

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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